Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employee at the Ministry of Civil Affairs told the British Broadcasting Corporation and other reporters today that the death toll from Sunday's quake had reached 939. The quake registered 7.6 on the Richter scale, indicating a temblor of tremendous and devastating strength...
...eleven-month-old Palestinian revolt. Two of the most feared are called "Cherry" and "Samson," code names for clandestine military teams whose members, garbed in kaffiyehs and speaking Arabic, secretly stalk the leaders of the intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinians charge that the units are actually death squads that murder suspects without provocation. The army refuses to discuss its covert operations against the uprising but vehemently denies it fields hit teams. "Dirty tricks are part of the game," confides a former Cherry member, "but not killing...
...that the clandestine teams have been given a license to kill. Last month six Cherry men disguised as Arabs drove a van with West Bank plates into the Arab village of Yatta. When local Palestinians approached the car to identify the occupants, two of them were machine-gunned to death. Both victims were on the Cherry unit's wanted list...
...which first awakened the outside world to the fact that an adult American drama existed which could be considered as something beyond mere theatrical entertainment." Eugene O'Neill wrote this self-assessment in a 1944 letter, and the judgment, while hardly modest, still seems incontrovertible 35 years after his death and a century after his birth. As a young playwright, O'Neill inherited a theater tradition that was principally a frame for gaslighted frivolities. By the time he got through with it, the U.S. stage had become electric, and had learned to accommodate native-grown murder, madness, alcoholism, dark sexuality...
...plays are now resurrected for the theater with any regularity. And of this small sample, which includes Ah, Wilderness! and The Iceman Cometh, only one seems surefire with playgoers and critics alike: A Long Day's Journey into Night, which was published after O'Neill's death and then performed first in 1956 despite his stated wish that it "never ((be)) produced as a play...